You must not pitch on too fanciful a goal, nor, on the other hand, must you think on yourself.

And it is a contradiction which only resolves itself in practice, one of those anomalies on which the world is built up." Lewis nodded his head.
"And the moral of it all is that there are two sorts of people who will never do any good on this planet.

One is the class which makes formulas and shallow little ideals its gods and has no glimpse of human needs and the plain issues of life.

The other is the egotist whose eye is always filled with his own figure, who investigates his motives, and hesitates and finicks, till Death knocks him on the head and there is an end of him.

Of the two give me the second, for even a narrow little egotistical self is better than a formula.